In spite of the foregoing action of the Washington Conference and the continuous protests' of foreign governments, the reoruiting of troops into the various Chinese armies has steadily continued until the number of soldiers under arms in the country at the present lime, according to the Chinese Year Book, amounts to 1,335,835 men, the largest standing army in the world. In the inability of the Chinese Government to keep this army paid and under contro] is the chief cause of the unsettled conditions existing in the country.
"This situation of military anarchy which has developed in China
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